Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP is one of the important service in any production system. Now a days, mail notifications became important to monitor systems in real time. Hence, it becomes essential to know how to configure mail utilities on servers. To enable any mail program on system, SMTP is basic component. Its a very easy and quick procedure to setup smtp on servers.

Pre-requisite :

Hostname and IP address of SMTP server should be known (e.g. we will use mailserver.xyz.com 10.10.2.5)